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STATS HISTORICAL SOCIETY
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.- -.-.... . HIT? & LQWRY ST.
COLUMBIA. MO. 65201
GT. 1C- 5-- 74
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71st Year - No. 8 Gottil Mortunp! It's Friday, September 22. 1978 2 Sections - 20 Pages - 15 Cents
- - Vance finds understanding in Saudi Arabia
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia ( UPI)
Secretary of State Cyrus Vance found
understanding Thursday, if not outright
support, for the Camp David peace
accords in Saudi Arabia.
American officials said Thursday
night after nearly three hours of talks
between Vance and Saudi leaders,
" they are actively involved in a
dialogue that can reach un-derstanding."
Hodding Carter III, Vance's
spokesman, said " we can continue to
believe that Saudi Arabia is a force for
moderation and stability in the Middle
East."
The Camp David accords had
angered some hardline Arab states so
much that radical Palestinians
threatened Thursday to blow up UJS. oil
installations in the Middle East.
It appeared that the neutral Saudi
stance, apparently giving Jordan a free
hand to enter peace talks with Israel
and Egypt, would be the maximum that
Vance could expect.
Jordan, the first stop on the Vance
mission, also gave the administration a
noncommital answer but expressed
willingness to hold further talks.
" We came to find, first, un-derstanding,
and then out of that could
come support," Hodding Carter said.
Vance's selling mission is com
plicated by an apparent disagreement
between the United States and Israel
about the exact wording of the
agreement reached on a moratorium of
new Israeli settlements in occupied
territories.
The two differing views on the set-tlements,
as well as Jerusalem, were to
be handled in separate letters which
were to have been issued Monday.
Because of the continuing dispute over
the exact agreement, Vance could not
present the letters to the Saudis in his
meetings Thursday.
Vance, on the second leg of his Middle
East trip to sell the Camp David
agreements to moderate Arab nations,
spent 30 minutes in a courtesy call on
ailing King Khalid, and then two hours
and 15 minutes with Crown Prince
Fahd, the deputy prime minister and '
the day- to- d- ay guiding power in oil- ric- h
Saudi Arabia.
Carter said, " they were actively
involved in a dialogue that can reach an
understanding."
On Tuesday, the Saudi cabinet issued
a statement which said that the Camp
David agreements were not a " final
acceptable" formula for peace." After
that statement, the dollar dropped
sharply in world markets in an ap-parent
reaction.
Vance's spokesman decribed the
talks as " good, thorough and friendly."
Asked if he thought the ad-ministration's
controversial sale of 60
F- 1- 5 fighters to Saudi Arabia had had
any effect on the Saudi's, Carter said,
" we have no reason to doubt the
rationale of the sale to a moderate and
stable Arab nation."
Although the Saudis were not ex-pected
to give public support to the
Camp David agreements, even tacit
support would permit Jordan to join
Israel and Egypt in peace talks.
Vance flew to Riyadh from Amman,
Jordan, where King Hussein appeared
less than enthusiastic about the ac-cords.
A statement issued through
Foreign Minister Hassan Ibrahim
noted that Jordan was not a party to the
Camp David agreement.
But Hussein did not give a flat " no,"
and said the dialogue should continue.
Vance had two important holds over
Hussein the United States supplies
both financial aid and weapons to
Jordan. In Saudi Arabia, Vance's chief
weapon was the fact the Carter ad-ministration
battled Congress and won
the right to sell 60 super- sophisticat- ed
F- 1- 5 fighter jets to Saudi Arabia.
This visit was a major test of that
policy.
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Economists Walter Johnson, left, and Donald Schilling express their views on the economic future.
Economic forecasts differ
By Steve Upson
Missoorian staff writer
Economic forecasts are made to be broken, or
at least revised and updated.
So Donald Schilling, an associate professor of
economics at the University, has made a 180- degr- ee
turn from his forecast in March that the
value of the dollar in foreign exchange markets
would stabilize.
But, Walter Johnson, another associate
professor of economics at the University,
needed to make only some minor revisions
before sticking by a " mildly bullish" forecast
for UJS. economic growth be made in April.
The dollar was worth about 230 Japanese yen,
a little more than two German marks and a little
less than two Swiss francs when Schilling
thought he saw the light at the end of the tunnel.
Now the dollar is worth less than 200 yen, less
than two marks and only a little more than 1.5
francs.
Schilling said he had expected the U. S.
government to take steps to control inflation,
Insight
but moves to do so have been " weak and late."
He said the continuing slide of the dollar is due
to the belief that increasing inflation in the U. S.
will push the dollar lower against currencies
from countries with less inflation.
" Inflation looked like it was leveling off in
August, but I don't buy it," he said. In August
the Bureau of Labor Statistics wholesale price of
finished goods index declined 0.1 percent, the
first decline in two years. The main reason for
the decline was a 1.5 percent decline in the
wholesale price of food, but the price inci eases
of other components of the index were less than
increases in previous months.
" I think it's just a temporary hiatus in a
continuing uptrend," Schilling said. He said he
thought inflation for the entire year would be
about 9 percent, and prices will be increasing at
a rate of 10 percent a year by the end of the year.
Johnson can't bring himself to join the
doomsayers this year. He talks like an
( See UNCERTAINTY, Page 12A)
Official arraigned
in welfare fraud By Barbara Laker
Missoorian staff writer
A member of the Boone County Welfare Ad--
visory Commission was arraigned in Boone
County Magistrate Court Thursday on a charges
of stealing money in a welfare fraud case.
Boone County Magistrate Court Judge Temple
Morgett will set the date of the preliminary
hearing today.
Joyce Malveaux, 39, of 311 Mohawk Ave., was
arrested Thursday on a charge of receiving
$ 5,705 of welfare funds including Aid to
Dependent Children, Medicaid benefits and food
stamps, none of which she was legally entitled to
receive.
Malveaux has been a member of the com-mission
since 1974.
The commission is a body of six members,
four of which are appointed by the state family
services division director on the recom-mendation
of the local county court.
The other two members, who are appointed by
the presiding judge of the county court, are
people who have received- welfar- e in the past.
Malveaux fit in this category, said Jerry
Brewer, the county director of the Boone County- divisio- n
of family services.
Malveaux's activities have been under in-vestigation
for approximately sixty days, ac-cording
to George Hollingsworth and Richard
Easter, of the investigation division of the
Department of Social Services.
Boone County family services officals helped
the division of investigation in the case, Easter
said Thursday.
Easter said one of the key elements in this
case is intent. " We contend Malveaux was fully
aware of the law," he said.
When applying for public assistance, a person
must comply with statutory requirements by
completing a set of forms declaring all income.
" Every six months, people on Aid to
Dependent Children have to report their income
and people receiving food stamps have to report
theirs every month," Easter said.
" This is the reason that we believe Malveaux
did this with intent," Hollingsworth added.
The charges against Malveaux allege that she
( See WELFARE, Page 14A)
Customers cry ' overcharge'
ByMikeBoggs
Missourian staff . writer
The city's utility billing department Thursday
received from 50 to 75 calls from customers
claiming they were overcharged on their fuel
adjustment tax. But city officials say the con-fusion
occurred because an incomplete number
was put on the bill, not an overcharge.
Bills from the city's Water and Light
Department show a fuel adjustment factor
charge of .00869 per kilowatt hour. When
customers multiplied the charge by the kilowatt
hours used, however, they found the amount
billed seemingly was more than it should have
been. This, the city said, was because the bills
did not show the extra gas charges being
collected from last winter's $ 304,000 overrun, an
overrun caused by gas used during last winter's
coal strike.
Customers actually have been paying the two
charges since July. The .00869 fuel adjustment
factor is based on the total cost of fuel purchases
during the last billing period. The extra charge
for fuel used last winter is computed at .00232
per KWH. Customers were charged for the cash
total of both.
Why, then, didn't the total .01101 appear on the
bills?
According to Charles Moreau, plant engineer
for the Water and Light Department, the
combination of a state law and a new computer
program led to the confusion.
Missouri has a law, he says, that forbids the
charge of sales tax and gross receipts tax on
extraordinary fuel charges. Because of the two
fuel adjustment charges, a new program had to
be written for the computer and it picked the
wrong number for the bill.
You must have " a number to put on the bill,
and the computer picked up the base number,"
Moreau says. " Computers are the stupidest
machines alive."
The difference between the base figure of
.00869 and the total of .01101 was minimal for
most consumers. For a home that used SCO
KWH, the difference was $ 2.09. Homes with
higher usages could look as if they were being
overcharged by $ 4 to $ 5.
Air- filt- er plant receives mixed reactions
ByTomNaber
Missoorian staff writer
The American Air Filter Co., Inc., of
Louisville, Ky. plans construction of a
new plant in Columbia this fall, the
Columbia Industrial Development
Commission and Columbia Chamber of
Commerce announced Thursday. A top
union leader here is less than en-thusiastic
about the new industry,
however.
The 56, COO- square- fo- ot plant, which
will employ about 70 Columbians for
mostly manufacturing jobs, will be
. located at the intersection of Vandiver --
. Drive and Nelwood Drive in the Mid- Misso- uri
Industrial Park near the
White Gate area.
The company will make three filters
in Columbia which will be used for
industrial, commercial and in-stitutional
applications, said Robert C.
Broberman, company spokesman.
The chamber of commerce and the
mayor are pleased with the plant's
decision to open in Columbia ( it is now
located in Shelbyville, Ky.). But union
leader Charles Pearl, chairman of
Organization and Affliation Committee
of the Labor Counsel of Columbia and
president of the United Postal Workers,
said he sees the plant' as a runaway
from Kentucky moving to Columbia not
to. benefit and become a part of the
community, but to find cheap labor.
. " History seems to indicate that they
pack up and leave as soon as the con- -
tract expires. What's to say they won't
leave here in the same way?" Pearl
asked. The union chief said he did not
want Columbia " to hide the company
until they can leave in a few years." He
said the union was going to try to bring
the " issues to light," because he
thought the good of Columbia would be
jeopardized if the company were
allowed to move into the city.
Efforts to get a reaction from the
plant president of the workers' union in
Shelbyville, Lemuel Wright, failed
after several attempts Thursday night.
But Mayor Les Proctor said the air
filter company, whose motto is " Our
business is clean air," bad sales of $ 250
million last year, and added that the
plant would not pollute the area. " It's
the type of plant we want to come
here," Proctor said.
He said the architects had already
designed the plant, and construction
should begin this fall.
The company will seek approval of $ 3
million in revenue bonds, said Proctor,
but the public will not get a chance to
vote approval of the bonds. Because of
a Missouri Supreme Court decision last
week, which upheld a state law that
said a city council does not have to hold
an election to get revenue- bon- d ap-proval,
the local government can ap-point
a special commission to approve
projects and bond issues.
The mayor said a committee would
be organized soon to decide the exact
needs of the company.
Proctor said the company would take
advantage of the 1975 city resolution
which requires that industries make
full in- lieu- of-
- tax payments when bonds
are floated.
Assistant City Manager Bob Black
said Columbia was chosen out of
several cities as a location for the plant,
which is moving from a leased site in
Shelbyville. Proctor said the company
chose Columbia because " it likes the
industrial enviroment"
Marshall Long, mayor of Shelbyville,
said be was sorry to see the company
go. He said the plant, which is located
around a residential area, is a clean
one, and the town has not had any
problems with the company.
In town
today
1 to 5 p. m. " Daisy Cook
Remembers" and " Graphics of
the Seventies: Lakeside Studio
Addition," University Art and
Archaeology Museum, Pickard
Hall.
7: 30 p. m. " Monique,"
presented by the Stephens
College Warehouse Theatre,
Warehouse Theatre.
8 pjn. Fort Zumwalt vs.
Hickman High School football,
Hickman Field.
Movie listings on Page 93
Curator urges step- u- p in affirmative- actio- n ellorte
By Sosi Trautmana and Grace
Schneider
Missoorian staff writers
Curator Marian Oldham Thursday
called for a stronger commitment to
affirmative action on the part of the
University, specifically in retaining
black students and hiring Mack faculty
and administrators.
. ' Mrs. Oldham, the only black curator,
. spoke on affirmative action at a special
session of the combined committees of
. the University Board of Curators at the
. Memorial Union.
University administrators assured
her that strides have been made and
mat efforts will continue. But Mrs.
" Oldham said after the- meetin- g; " I
expected moire.' "
Mrs. Oldham said recent statistics
reveal that the attrition rate for black
students is about 87 percent on the
. residential campuses Columbia and .
Rolla. She referred to the " Revolving
Door. Syndrome,',' in which - black
students are admitted to the University
only to become dropouts in their
sophomore and junior years.
The high attrition rate, said Mrs.
Oldham, can be attributed to the
University's " failure to make a valid
and active commitment to student --
rights and needs." She noted the need
for more Mack counselors, specially
trained to deal with the problems
confronting Mack students. And the
' .' need for a written policy concerning the .
standards that must be maintained to
secure scholarship aid beyond the
freshman year.
Curator Robert Dempster also ad-vocated
the need for making students
aware of academic standards and then
tracking their progress. " Black or
white, if he's not making his grades,
someone ought to tell him about it
before the end of the semester," he
said.
University Chancellor Barbara
Uehling defended the efforts of campus
programs that " have been of service to
minority students," such as those of-fered
through the Learning Center for
improving basic math and reading
skills.
She said, however, " the reasons for
student attrition are. very complicated
and we need to learn more."
Mrs. Oldham also discussed the
University's record for hiring Mack
faculty, administrators and
nonacademic employees. Out of the
total faculty membership, exceeding
5,000, she said that only 14 blacks have
tenure. In. addition, she. said there is
only one black among the 127
executives in central administration.
A. G. Unklesbay, vice president for
administration, pointed out that only
one. black, a high school principal,
applied last year for the widely ad-vertised
chancellorship of the Columbia
campus. ''
" Black applicants are not out there,"
he said. " It's difficult to hire them if
they don't exist."
- . University President James Olson.
said affirmative action is a continuous
concern of faculty and administration.
" Admittedly we are not doing as well as
we should, but we will continue to try to
improve the situation at the University
of Missouri."
Also among the subjects discussed by
the curators was the University's 1975- 8- 5
academic plan. The plan, approved
in 1974, lists the academic philosophies
and policies of each campus, as well as
degree- progra- m priorities. The plan
provides guidelines designating which
programs will be expanded, main-tained
or eliminated.
Reports by Mel George, Universiy
vice president for academic affairs,
and the four campus chancellors in-dicated
that the University has been
.. adhering to the plan over the past foor"
years. But in order to " ma. ntain the
process as a live enterprise," President
Olson earlier tins month indicated to
the chancellors that the plan should be
updated. He asked them to submit
recommendations regarding tiie update
by Oct 15, 1978.
As part of the long- ran- ge planning
efforts of the Columbia campus,
Chancellor Uehling announced Wed-nesday
that she would appoint; jfcwo
committees to address concerns
regaining the University's future, tee
indicated that an update of the canons'
academic plan would be deduced tram .:
the committees' findings mcofflciiJBBco ;
with the president's raqoctt! As) frfae r
said that the planning process weoKbe ' '
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STATS HISTORICAL SOCIETY
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.- -.-.... . HIT? & LQWRY ST.
COLUMBIA. MO. 65201
GT. 1C- 5-- 74
,
71st Year - No. 8 Gottil Mortunp! It's Friday, September 22. 1978 2 Sections - 20 Pages - 15 Cents
- - Vance finds understanding in Saudi Arabia
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia ( UPI)
Secretary of State Cyrus Vance found
understanding Thursday, if not outright
support, for the Camp David peace
accords in Saudi Arabia.
American officials said Thursday
night after nearly three hours of talks
between Vance and Saudi leaders,
" they are actively involved in a
dialogue that can reach un-derstanding."
Hodding Carter III, Vance's
spokesman, said " we can continue to
believe that Saudi Arabia is a force for
moderation and stability in the Middle
East."
The Camp David accords had
angered some hardline Arab states so
much that radical Palestinians
threatened Thursday to blow up UJS. oil
installations in the Middle East.
It appeared that the neutral Saudi
stance, apparently giving Jordan a free
hand to enter peace talks with Israel
and Egypt, would be the maximum that
Vance could expect.
Jordan, the first stop on the Vance
mission, also gave the administration a
noncommital answer but expressed
willingness to hold further talks.
" We came to find, first, un-derstanding,
and then out of that could
come support," Hodding Carter said.
Vance's selling mission is com
plicated by an apparent disagreement
between the United States and Israel
about the exact wording of the
agreement reached on a moratorium of
new Israeli settlements in occupied
territories.
The two differing views on the set-tlements,
as well as Jerusalem, were to
be handled in separate letters which
were to have been issued Monday.
Because of the continuing dispute over
the exact agreement, Vance could not
present the letters to the Saudis in his
meetings Thursday.
Vance, on the second leg of his Middle
East trip to sell the Camp David
agreements to moderate Arab nations,
spent 30 minutes in a courtesy call on
ailing King Khalid, and then two hours
and 15 minutes with Crown Prince
Fahd, the deputy prime minister and '
the day- to- d- ay guiding power in oil- ric- h
Saudi Arabia.
Carter said, " they were actively
involved in a dialogue that can reach an
understanding."
On Tuesday, the Saudi cabinet issued
a statement which said that the Camp
David agreements were not a " final
acceptable" formula for peace." After
that statement, the dollar dropped
sharply in world markets in an ap-parent
reaction.
Vance's spokesman decribed the
talks as " good, thorough and friendly."
Asked if he thought the ad-ministration's
controversial sale of 60
F- 1- 5 fighters to Saudi Arabia had had
any effect on the Saudi's, Carter said,
" we have no reason to doubt the
rationale of the sale to a moderate and
stable Arab nation."
Although the Saudis were not ex-pected
to give public support to the
Camp David agreements, even tacit
support would permit Jordan to join
Israel and Egypt in peace talks.
Vance flew to Riyadh from Amman,
Jordan, where King Hussein appeared
less than enthusiastic about the ac-cords.
A statement issued through
Foreign Minister Hassan Ibrahim
noted that Jordan was not a party to the
Camp David agreement.
But Hussein did not give a flat " no,"
and said the dialogue should continue.
Vance had two important holds over
Hussein the United States supplies
both financial aid and weapons to
Jordan. In Saudi Arabia, Vance's chief
weapon was the fact the Carter ad-ministration
battled Congress and won
the right to sell 60 super- sophisticat- ed
F- 1- 5 fighter jets to Saudi Arabia.
This visit was a major test of that
policy.
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Economists Walter Johnson, left, and Donald Schilling express their views on the economic future.
Economic forecasts differ
By Steve Upson
Missoorian staff writer
Economic forecasts are made to be broken, or
at least revised and updated.
So Donald Schilling, an associate professor of
economics at the University, has made a 180- degr- ee
turn from his forecast in March that the
value of the dollar in foreign exchange markets
would stabilize.
But, Walter Johnson, another associate
professor of economics at the University,
needed to make only some minor revisions
before sticking by a " mildly bullish" forecast
for UJS. economic growth be made in April.
The dollar was worth about 230 Japanese yen,
a little more than two German marks and a little
less than two Swiss francs when Schilling
thought he saw the light at the end of the tunnel.
Now the dollar is worth less than 200 yen, less
than two marks and only a little more than 1.5
francs.
Schilling said he had expected the U. S.
government to take steps to control inflation,
Insight
but moves to do so have been " weak and late."
He said the continuing slide of the dollar is due
to the belief that increasing inflation in the U. S.
will push the dollar lower against currencies
from countries with less inflation.
" Inflation looked like it was leveling off in
August, but I don't buy it," he said. In August
the Bureau of Labor Statistics wholesale price of
finished goods index declined 0.1 percent, the
first decline in two years. The main reason for
the decline was a 1.5 percent decline in the
wholesale price of food, but the price inci eases
of other components of the index were less than
increases in previous months.
" I think it's just a temporary hiatus in a
continuing uptrend," Schilling said. He said he
thought inflation for the entire year would be
about 9 percent, and prices will be increasing at
a rate of 10 percent a year by the end of the year.
Johnson can't bring himself to join the
doomsayers this year. He talks like an
( See UNCERTAINTY, Page 12A)
Official arraigned
in welfare fraud By Barbara Laker
Missoorian staff writer
A member of the Boone County Welfare Ad--
visory Commission was arraigned in Boone
County Magistrate Court Thursday on a charges
of stealing money in a welfare fraud case.
Boone County Magistrate Court Judge Temple
Morgett will set the date of the preliminary
hearing today.
Joyce Malveaux, 39, of 311 Mohawk Ave., was
arrested Thursday on a charge of receiving
$ 5,705 of welfare funds including Aid to
Dependent Children, Medicaid benefits and food
stamps, none of which she was legally entitled to
receive.
Malveaux has been a member of the com-mission
since 1974.
The commission is a body of six members,
four of which are appointed by the state family
services division director on the recom-mendation
of the local county court.
The other two members, who are appointed by
the presiding judge of the county court, are
people who have received- welfar- e in the past.
Malveaux fit in this category, said Jerry
Brewer, the county director of the Boone County- divisio- n
of family services.
Malveaux's activities have been under in-vestigation
for approximately sixty days, ac-cording
to George Hollingsworth and Richard
Easter, of the investigation division of the
Department of Social Services.
Boone County family services officals helped
the division of investigation in the case, Easter
said Thursday.
Easter said one of the key elements in this
case is intent. " We contend Malveaux was fully
aware of the law," he said.
When applying for public assistance, a person
must comply with statutory requirements by
completing a set of forms declaring all income.
" Every six months, people on Aid to
Dependent Children have to report their income
and people receiving food stamps have to report
theirs every month," Easter said.
" This is the reason that we believe Malveaux
did this with intent," Hollingsworth added.
The charges against Malveaux allege that she
( See WELFARE, Page 14A)
Customers cry ' overcharge'
ByMikeBoggs
Missourian staff . writer
The city's utility billing department Thursday
received from 50 to 75 calls from customers
claiming they were overcharged on their fuel
adjustment tax. But city officials say the con-fusion
occurred because an incomplete number
was put on the bill, not an overcharge.
Bills from the city's Water and Light
Department show a fuel adjustment factor
charge of .00869 per kilowatt hour. When
customers multiplied the charge by the kilowatt
hours used, however, they found the amount
billed seemingly was more than it should have
been. This, the city said, was because the bills
did not show the extra gas charges being
collected from last winter's $ 304,000 overrun, an
overrun caused by gas used during last winter's
coal strike.
Customers actually have been paying the two
charges since July. The .00869 fuel adjustment
factor is based on the total cost of fuel purchases
during the last billing period. The extra charge
for fuel used last winter is computed at .00232
per KWH. Customers were charged for the cash
total of both.
Why, then, didn't the total .01101 appear on the
bills?
According to Charles Moreau, plant engineer
for the Water and Light Department, the
combination of a state law and a new computer
program led to the confusion.
Missouri has a law, he says, that forbids the
charge of sales tax and gross receipts tax on
extraordinary fuel charges. Because of the two
fuel adjustment charges, a new program had to
be written for the computer and it picked the
wrong number for the bill.
You must have " a number to put on the bill,
and the computer picked up the base number,"
Moreau says. " Computers are the stupidest
machines alive."
The difference between the base figure of
.00869 and the total of .01101 was minimal for
most consumers. For a home that used SCO
KWH, the difference was $ 2.09. Homes with
higher usages could look as if they were being
overcharged by $ 4 to $ 5.
Air- filt- er plant receives mixed reactions
ByTomNaber
Missoorian staff writer
The American Air Filter Co., Inc., of
Louisville, Ky. plans construction of a
new plant in Columbia this fall, the
Columbia Industrial Development
Commission and Columbia Chamber of
Commerce announced Thursday. A top
union leader here is less than en-thusiastic
about the new industry,
however.
The 56, COO- square- fo- ot plant, which
will employ about 70 Columbians for
mostly manufacturing jobs, will be
. located at the intersection of Vandiver --
. Drive and Nelwood Drive in the Mid- Misso- uri
Industrial Park near the
White Gate area.
The company will make three filters
in Columbia which will be used for
industrial, commercial and in-stitutional
applications, said Robert C.
Broberman, company spokesman.
The chamber of commerce and the
mayor are pleased with the plant's
decision to open in Columbia ( it is now
located in Shelbyville, Ky.). But union
leader Charles Pearl, chairman of
Organization and Affliation Committee
of the Labor Counsel of Columbia and
president of the United Postal Workers,
said he sees the plant' as a runaway
from Kentucky moving to Columbia not
to. benefit and become a part of the
community, but to find cheap labor.
. " History seems to indicate that they
pack up and leave as soon as the con- -
tract expires. What's to say they won't
leave here in the same way?" Pearl
asked. The union chief said he did not
want Columbia " to hide the company
until they can leave in a few years." He
said the union was going to try to bring
the " issues to light," because he
thought the good of Columbia would be
jeopardized if the company were
allowed to move into the city.
Efforts to get a reaction from the
plant president of the workers' union in
Shelbyville, Lemuel Wright, failed
after several attempts Thursday night.
But Mayor Les Proctor said the air
filter company, whose motto is " Our
business is clean air," bad sales of $ 250
million last year, and added that the
plant would not pollute the area. " It's
the type of plant we want to come
here," Proctor said.
He said the architects had already
designed the plant, and construction
should begin this fall.
The company will seek approval of $ 3
million in revenue bonds, said Proctor,
but the public will not get a chance to
vote approval of the bonds. Because of
a Missouri Supreme Court decision last
week, which upheld a state law that
said a city council does not have to hold
an election to get revenue- bon- d ap-proval,
the local government can ap-point
a special commission to approve
projects and bond issues.
The mayor said a committee would
be organized soon to decide the exact
needs of the company.
Proctor said the company would take
advantage of the 1975 city resolution
which requires that industries make
full in- lieu- of-
- tax payments when bonds
are floated.
Assistant City Manager Bob Black
said Columbia was chosen out of
several cities as a location for the plant,
which is moving from a leased site in
Shelbyville. Proctor said the company
chose Columbia because " it likes the
industrial enviroment"
Marshall Long, mayor of Shelbyville,
said be was sorry to see the company
go. He said the plant, which is located
around a residential area, is a clean
one, and the town has not had any
problems with the company.
In town
today
1 to 5 p. m. " Daisy Cook
Remembers" and " Graphics of
the Seventies: Lakeside Studio
Addition," University Art and
Archaeology Museum, Pickard
Hall.
7: 30 p. m. " Monique,"
presented by the Stephens
College Warehouse Theatre,
Warehouse Theatre.
8 pjn. Fort Zumwalt vs.
Hickman High School football,
Hickman Field.
Movie listings on Page 93
Curator urges step- u- p in affirmative- actio- n ellorte
By Sosi Trautmana and Grace
Schneider
Missoorian staff writers
Curator Marian Oldham Thursday
called for a stronger commitment to
affirmative action on the part of the
University, specifically in retaining
black students and hiring Mack faculty
and administrators.
. ' Mrs. Oldham, the only black curator,
. spoke on affirmative action at a special
session of the combined committees of
. the University Board of Curators at the
. Memorial Union.
University administrators assured
her that strides have been made and
mat efforts will continue. But Mrs.
" Oldham said after the- meetin- g; " I
expected moire.' "
Mrs. Oldham said recent statistics
reveal that the attrition rate for black
students is about 87 percent on the
. residential campuses Columbia and .
Rolla. She referred to the " Revolving
Door. Syndrome,',' in which - black
students are admitted to the University
only to become dropouts in their
sophomore and junior years.
The high attrition rate, said Mrs.
Oldham, can be attributed to the
University's " failure to make a valid
and active commitment to student --
rights and needs." She noted the need
for more Mack counselors, specially
trained to deal with the problems
confronting Mack students. And the
' .' need for a written policy concerning the .
standards that must be maintained to
secure scholarship aid beyond the
freshman year.
Curator Robert Dempster also ad-vocated
the need for making students
aware of academic standards and then
tracking their progress. " Black or
white, if he's not making his grades,
someone ought to tell him about it
before the end of the semester," he
said.
University Chancellor Barbara
Uehling defended the efforts of campus
programs that " have been of service to
minority students," such as those of-fered
through the Learning Center for
improving basic math and reading
skills.
She said, however, " the reasons for
student attrition are. very complicated
and we need to learn more."
Mrs. Oldham also discussed the
University's record for hiring Mack
faculty, administrators and
nonacademic employees. Out of the
total faculty membership, exceeding
5,000, she said that only 14 blacks have
tenure. In. addition, she. said there is
only one black among the 127
executives in central administration.
A. G. Unklesbay, vice president for
administration, pointed out that only
one. black, a high school principal,
applied last year for the widely ad-vertised
chancellorship of the Columbia
campus. ''
" Black applicants are not out there,"
he said. " It's difficult to hire them if
they don't exist."
- . University President James Olson.
said affirmative action is a continuous
concern of faculty and administration.
" Admittedly we are not doing as well as
we should, but we will continue to try to
improve the situation at the University
of Missouri."
Also among the subjects discussed by
the curators was the University's 1975- 8- 5
academic plan. The plan, approved
in 1974, lists the academic philosophies
and policies of each campus, as well as
degree- progra- m priorities. The plan
provides guidelines designating which
programs will be expanded, main-tained
or eliminated.
Reports by Mel George, Universiy
vice president for academic affairs,
and the four campus chancellors in-dicated
that the University has been
.. adhering to the plan over the past foor"
years. But in order to " ma. ntain the
process as a live enterprise," President
Olson earlier tins month indicated to
the chancellors that the plan should be
updated. He asked them to submit
recommendations regarding tiie update
by Oct 15, 1978.
As part of the long- ran- ge planning
efforts of the Columbia campus,
Chancellor Uehling announced Wed-nesday
that she would appoint; jfcwo
committees to address concerns
regaining the University's future, tee
indicated that an update of the canons'
academic plan would be deduced tram .:
the committees' findings mcofflciiJBBco ;
with the president's raqoctt! As) frfae r
said that the planning process weoKbe ' '
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